Term Papers on The Tragedy Within The Romance (Winters Tale)

Term Paper Title	The Tragedy Within The Romance (Winters Tale)
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# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	1.72

The Tragedy Within The Romance (Winter's Tale)

March 14, 1996
MWF 1:00 PM
The Tragedy Within A Romance

     In 1623, the complete works of Shakespeare were published in the First Folio.  Within this Folio were the works of Shakespeare categorized by their genre.  There were tragedies, histories, comedies, and the final four were romances.  Prior to this time, romance was not a widespread genre in anyonešs writings.  We can see by means of the łgenealogy˛ of writing, that the romance we know today was created through the combination of the Greek novels and Shakespearean comedies.  This alliance between the two genres is apparent in Shakespearešs Winteršs Tale.  The most obvious indication to this suggestion is in the first three acts of the play.  Within these acts a whole tragedy can be seen and all itšs parts defined to show that this Romance was written  by meshing to types of play together.
     The first three acts of the Winteršs Tale are where the tragedy takes place.  These three acts can be broken down into five acts, as suggested by Bill, the great comparative literian.  The first of these five acts is the exposition.  The story is set up and you are thrust into Leontes internal passion of jealousy.  The second act is where Leontes expresses his p...

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